28mm Renaissance at The Worlds, Derby 2015
TYW German Catholic vs TYW German Catholic
Game 1 TYW German Catholic vs TYW French
Game 2 TYW German Catholic vs TYW French
Game 3 TYW German Catholic vs TYW German Catholic
Game 4 TYW German Catholic vs TYW German Catholic
The lists for the TYW German Catholic and TYW German Catholic from this game, as well as all the other lists from the games at Derby can be seen here in the FoG:R Wiki.
Game 4, a Scottish-led Spanish army from a man living in France. A classic version of modern European integration, but also a description of a chef who's restaurant you would almost certainly make great pains to avoid.
This again was a game with more reasonable terrain and proper figures on both sides. The Spanish had some fearsomely expensive Elite units of infantry arrayed on the German left, but not so many other units elsewhere. I had again stacked the right wing, and with my extra general I hoped to nullify the Elite status of the Spaniards as best I could.
Oddly, the Spanish had used some rough ground to protect the centre of their army and their baggage, and so never one to look a gift trap in the mouth the Germans lurched forwards and converged on the two disassociated flanks of the Spanish, pushing the yet-again surely not really up for this Carbine armed horse into the maw of the Iberian line.
Q: What do you get when you cross a Mexican and a German? - A: A Beaner-Schnitzel
The Spanish had gotten their Dragoons into a real pickle (usually more a German speciality...) as their proper troops piled up behind them, and soon the 3-strong Spanish unit was taking heavy fire from the German guns
The TYW, one fortnight at a time
On the left the Germans were echeloning cleverly as they advanced, with almost all of their troops mutually supporting each other as their slightly over-extended line crept forwards shooting as thye went
Red and Blue Superior vs Red and Red Elite... although with little gunnes on the German side. No skill here...
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The Spanish had taken a huge risk by placing that many Cuirassiers on what appeared to be a foamcore hill - the potential risk to the terrain of the sheer weight of lead could end up costing them a new terrain piece if they didn't come down off the hill soon...
Q: How do you get rid of aristocratic Germans? - A: Von by von
Little Guns were proving deadly, as the Elite Spanish infantry melted away in the face of the German shooting - clearly all of the good luck than had evaded them in the previous game was coming back this time around, much to the disgust of the Spanish
In the middle the Carbine-armed horse were trying for the third game in a row to try and soak up some infantry shooting and work in tandem with their own foote to overwhelm an enemy foote unit with sheer weight of dice... and yet again it wasn't working as the Green Regiment took a disproportionate pounding from its foes
Thirty Years, One War
And, worse was to come! The Spanish also had some of their own Rubbish Horse, this time in the shape of Average Pistol armed Caballeros Caballiones Con Crappios! These hapless back-edge dwellers had found themselves suddenly cast as unlikely heroes as they now had opponents on table who they actually had some chance of beating in the form of the Carbine Horse - they redeployed rapidly and charged home!
The Elite infantry were almost totally removed, and down to two bases - such losses caused the cheeky Blue Regiment to finally charge home, on the basis that they might sneak in an extra pursuit move and end up closer to the enemy baggage where a tasty feast of cured meats, Iberian cheeses and oak-barrel-aged red wine no doubt awaited them.
The Carbine armed horse lasted little longer than they had in the previous game, with the astounded Spanish Caballeros Con Crappios pursuing them across the hole that had now opened in the centre of my army
They were soon followed by the Green Regiment, who had comprehensively failed to beat Average opposition and who were now barely even numbering enough bases to put together a convincing rout ...
Units were blowing up across the full width of the table on both sides as the losses mounted
But even with all of this excitement, there of course was still time for some Dragoons to hide in a field and do very little
Finally, as the hill creaked and groaned the Spanish Cuirassiers decided it was now time for them to charge forward. The two sides were evenly matched, although the presence of TWO generals from the Germans vs the one from the Spanish gave the Teutonic forces a small edge... would it be enough?
Not really.... the slightly advantaged, effectively Elite Germans conspired to lose a base and a cohesion level on one of their two units, doing no damage to the Spanish in return. Meh...
As the two sets of lobstermen swung at each other at close range, things got even worse for the Germans, with one unit dropping to Fragged and the other losing both cohesion and a base. The supposedly identical Spanish however had only decided to lose a single base in reply.
German vs English Football Culture
One of the German units broke and the survivors were quickly run down by the pursuing Spaniards. The other melee needed to be resolved quickly in favour of the Germans, or the returning pursuers would wreak merry hell on the Teutonic backsides
Fortunately a spare German infantry unit had moved itself into position to charge the rear of the beer-battered Spanish Cuirassiers, leaving them as the filling in a deep-fill sauerkraut and chorizo sandwich! The Spanish wobbled... but then amazingly survived the melee phase and beat back the German infantry, who then dropped to Fragged... but who proceeded to double-six the Spanish General in reply!
With so much going on time was fast running out... the Germans had tipped over the edge to defeat, however in the last roll of the game the Spanish in turn reacted badly to the loss of their leader, and their resolve faltered and they in turn broke... leaving a close result even closer !
Read on for the post match summaries from the Generals involved, as well as another episode of legendary expert analysis from Hannibal
Post Match Summary from the TYW German Catholic Commander
Ach du heiliger Strohsack! Un inkredibledisastervictoryspiel mit more turns than a plate of spaghetti with pork meatballs and a pork knuckle starter ! Der underperformancefahrt of the Carbine Horsefleisch is a recurrent idiom I now see, but with such a armysplittergapopportunity in front of me I was compelled to make the dramatic maneuver.
The brave Colour Regiments did well to totalkaput the Elite Hispanics but this was in the end not enough. .
Yet again the decisivespielmoment came with the brave and efficiently cliche'd forces of German Popery taking on opponents in a Cuirassierkatastrophe mutual matchup, and Germany coming off Wurst
I am glad that our flagdisplaytechnisch was up to usual Bavarian standard, and that in the Champions League of numbers, our fourbasefigureakkommodationdecision was vindicated in the mang photokinagraphic incidents recorded in the weekend. Perhaps next time we will try using gunnes without crew, as this seems to be the biggest difference of all...
Hannibal's Post Match Analysis
After three such defeats you shoudl be injured and lying a-bed, attended by a physician of the Papal court. In my prayers tonight I will be praying to put it, God, in the physician's mind to help this idiot to his grave immediately, so that such outrages of comedy battle management can be avoided henceforth and evermore
Leave thy vain bibble-babble and admit for once that choosing an army based on the fact that yu have the flags for it is not the best strategy when it comes to a cage-gight such as is this 28mm large move distance format of game. You were outdone by quality, and by numbers of gunnes throughout the weekend and the points tally you ended up with is a fair reflection of your paucity of competence
It is therefore highly shameful and shocking to find that you in fact won the team competition, despite your paltry contribution as your esteemed team mates dragged you kicking and screaming to the surface of the pond in which your brain resided, like the toad, ugly and venomous
I am sure that everyone knows you did not deserve your part in this result, so be gone back to your communion of dust and despair, and darken our doors no more this fair day
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Game 1 TYW German Catholic vs TYW French
Game 2 TYW German Catholic vs TYW French
Game 3 TYW German Catholic vs TYW German Catholic
Game 4 TYW German Catholic vs TYW German Catholic
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